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WASHINGTON (AP) — Is Washington’s backroom dealing dead? House Speaker John Boehner says he no longer wants to negotiate deficit reduction with President Barack Obama. The president says he won’t negotiate raising the government’s borrowing authority. Rank and file lawmakers say they’re tired of being left out of the loop and insist on the regular […]
CLEVELAND — Autopsies found cocaine in the systems of two unarmed people killed by police in Cleveland after a chase that ended with 13 officers…
A 28-year-old teacher out of New Jersey has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student. Jennalin Garcia-Calle is accused of having sex with the teenager during school hours starting back in December. The relationship was discovered after the student told a family member about the relationship who then tipped off the police. […]
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida on Friday, claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court records show that Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2011, sought Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Tampa. Her listed debts include $500,000 for attorney […]
Some current and former Chicago gang members are choosing a basketball as their weapon of choice thanks to a local minister. The Maroon team and the Green team faced off for a game of one on one at the auditorium of St. Sabina Church. The Maroon team is comprised of members of the Killa Ward […]
Brendon Ayanbadejo is preparing for the spotlight on and off the field this Super Bowl Sunday. The Baltimore Ravens linebacker plans to use the February 3 game as a platform to publicize his support for same-sex marriages and his stance against bullying. According The New York Times, Ayanbadejo emailed gay rights advocates Brian Ellner and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama has a new look, both in person and online, and with the president’s re-election, she has four more years as first lady, too. That’s got many people wondering: What will she do with them? Take on a new cause? Travel more? Trace the path of another first lady and keep […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is a big football fan with two daughters, but if he had a son, he says he’d “have to think long and hard” before letting him play because of the physical toll the game takes. “I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have […]
BOSTON (AP) — After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state’s popular vote all […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the world’s deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. […]
What better way to get Black people to oppose gun control than to evoke everyone’s new favorite slave, Django — and the thought of being…
TOKYO (AP) — According to its official statements, North Korea is ready to go to the brink. But how serious are Pyongyang‘s threats? This week, new U.N. sanctions punishing the North’s successful December rocket launch have elicited a furious response from Pyongyang: strong hints that a third nuclear test is coming, along with bigger and […]
